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All along the Keystone State's border with New York, there are big, blue roadside signs proclaiming, "Pennsylvania Welcomes You."

Only now some Upstate New York towns may be interpreting this invitation as far more than a typical tourists greeting. A move is afoot in some parts of New York's economically suffering Southern Tier to secede from that state and join Pennsylvania.

Are the Russians coming to Texas riding the tailwinds of fracking? That depends on who you ask, as some believe Russian forces were behind the anti-fracking vote in Denton, while a $15 million investment in new Texas fracking technology by Roman Abramovich perhaps tells another story.

When the anti-fracking campaign started to heat up late last year in Denton, Texas—the heart of the shale revolution—conspiracy theories were spread from within the pro-fracking community that the Russians were behind the whole thing. The logic was that the American shale revolution threatened Russia’s market share.

Yet just months after a successful vote to ban fracking in Denton, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has invested $15 million in Houston-based Propell Technologies Group, Inc. (OTC:PROP) and its new fracking technology from wholly owned subsidiary Novas Energy. Significantly, this new enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology enables ‘clean’ hydraulic micro/nano fracturing of oil reservoirs—that is, without water, without polluting chemicals and without earthquakes.

By a 4-3 vote, the justices ruled that the state has “exclusive authority” and that cities and counties can neither ban nor regulate fracking through zoning laws or other restrictions.

Local governments’ home-rule powers stop short of the wellhead — overridden by the authority that lawmakers gave to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to license and regulate the location of wells, the court’s majority ruled.

State Sen. Konni Burton is pushing a bill that would block communities from following Denton by banning hydraulic fracturing, saying such prohibitions infringe on individual property rights.

The Colleyville Republican filed a bill in Austin last week to amend the local government code that simply says that a county or municipality may not prohibit the drilling method for oil and gas wells.

“A city cannot infringe on personal property rights,” Burton said. “This is pretty black and white to me. …. A governmental entity should not be able to tell you what you can or can’t do with your property.”

Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would require local governments that restrict fracking activities to compensate mineral owners. The topic of fracking regulations is likely to generate the most debate among legislators during this session.

The bill would grant compensation to any landowners whose property value faced a loss of 60 percent or more as the result of any “ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, or other form of official policy concerning mineral extraction operations that has the likely effect of reducing the fair market value of the owner’s mineral interest…”

According to the bill, mineral owners may also decide whether they want their case heard by a court, commission or jury. If owners feel that the compensation offered is too low, they would be able to challenge the amount.

Gov. John Hickenlooker’s Oil and Gas Task Force will present their recommendations for resolving land disputes to lawmakers later this month. Their next meeting will take place in Denver on Deb. 24, according to Oil and Gas 360.